Heartful Healing

29/09/2025

28/09/2025

Just had to share this with you all. My friend Helen from Helen Moran Art has been at it again. Thank you for my painting of Jessie. You've captured her sweet nature perfectly and it just radiates happiness.

26/09/2025

I've really enjoyed updating my trauma training recently, with the School of Trauma Release. I find it all absolutely fascinating and get so excited by the change we can make. No one needs to suffer on their own. There are so many ways to make a real change.
The vagus nerve really does hold onto so much and when we work with it, it can be so powerful and transformative.
Going between states and into fight, flight or freeze is a normal bodily response to have. After all, it would be no use us being calm and serene if we were faced with an intruder or if a tiger was sitting beside us. The problem begins when we struggle to come back out of those states and settle back into the calm, responsive state again.
Talking is amazing. It's a crucial part of processing trauma but sometimes we also need a body orientated approach to really feel that change we crave.
There is always help available, with whatever it is you need and we are so lucky nowadays to have so many wonderful therapies available to us. 🙏🏻
I honestly believe that when you find the right approach for you, the worlds your oyster and you can regain your sense of self, balance and peace. There is always hope! Always! Even if you can't feel it in that moment.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone. Sending so much love and peace to you all. ☀️ ❤️

17/09/2025

Waiting for my first client of the day to arrive and it's beginning to feel gorgeously Autumnal in the therapy room. 🍂

How beautiful are my new prints created by my talented friend Helen Moran?! Helen and I went to school together and studied A Level photography many, many years ago. What a laugh we had in that dark room! You can imagine the chaos we created in there! 😆 Helen went on to study art and later animal training and healing, now working with animals. She also incorporates her intuitive and creative side making these beautiful collages. Thank you Helen. I love them. I hope my horse helpers in the field approve, as the horse one is in honour of them. 🥰

09/08/2025

All set up at The Clay Factory open day which is open until 4pm today. It looks wonderful already with so many interesting stalls. 🥰

01/08/2025

It's a beautiful evening down in the therapy room tonight. ☀️

29/07/2025

Long before temples were carved in stone, humanity’s first sanctuary was a circle of stones around a small, steady flame. In that dancing light, something awakens.

Fire meditation is one of the oldest contemplative practices known to humankind. It asks for nothing but your presence before a flame—be it a candle, a hearth, or the living fire of a camp. In its simplicity lies a profound alchemy.

When you sit before a flame and let your gaze soften, something remarkable begins to happen:

1. The nervous system remembers rest
The shifting light slows the rhythm of thought. Heartbeat steadies. The mind that was scattered becomes a clear sky, and within it, the signal of your deeper knowing grows audible once more.

2. The primal bond rekindles
For nearly two million years, fire has been a guardian. It has cooked our food, warmed our nights, and kept the predators away. Each flicker awakens ancestral memory: you are safe, you belong, you are home.

3. A mirror of transformation
Fire is change in motion. It teaches that all things burn, release, and become something new. As you watch, burdens loosen their grip. Patterns you no longer need dissolve in that dance of light. The flame becomes a teacher of surrender and renewal.

4. Pathway to presence
The hypnotic motion draws the senses fully into the moment. The body relaxes; the breath becomes slow. Soon, there is only now: no past to regret, no future to grasp—only this luminous instant.

5. A bridge to the infinite
In the depths of the gaze, the flame ceases to be an object. It becomes an opening. Many describe visions, insights, or a feeling of being lifted out of time. The mind, emptied of noise, touches the vastness from which thought itself arises.

To meditate with fire, you do not need complex instructions.

Find a flame. Sit quietly. Let the light enter your eyes and the warmth enter your skin. Let everything else fall away.

Soon, the flicker becomes your breath, the glow becomes your heart, and you begin to feel something ancient: that the same force that burns in the wood, burns in you.

In the stillness of that moment, a quiet truth dawns—you are both the watcher and the flame.

28/07/2025

So Friday night I had a biiiiig accident. As I was setting up for our sound healing session, dear little Jessie Dog knocked over my gong, which smashed most of my new singing bowls. Yes, I cried... and swore.... and then gathered myself together and carried on with what was left of the bowls.
Thank you so much to the beautiful souls that came Friday night. I'm sorry it wasn't quite what I'd planned for you but no doubt, it was just what was needed, as we always get what we need when we set that intention with the universe.
So my next step is to seriously consider whether I replace these bowls or go for something different. No, my insurance won't cover it. 😭 Maybe Himalayan metal bowls would be more suited to me. 🫣
Anyway, I really hope you all aren't finding these intense retrograde energies too challenging. I for one will be glad when the planets settle a bit! 🙏🏻 🤪 Love to you all. Onwards and upwards.
Kristel Xx

23/07/2025

Fully booked for this one now. I'm so sorry to those who didn't get a place this time. If the weather is nice and we can head out into the woods, I will post on here (on Friday) to see if anyone else would like to come. Lots of love to you all. Xx

🎵 Friday 25th July ✨

Sound Healing and Meditation in the Woods
🌲 🌿🪵☀️

Friday 25th July 7-8pm
£15 pp

Please let me know if you would like to reserve a space. I am going to offer 4 spaces at the moment (in case we have to relocate to the therapy room) however nearer the time, if the weather's looking good and we can be in the woods , I can open up more spaces, so watch this space. 😊

I'll do a little sun dance. ☀️ 😆